Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
Gift  of  Seymour  B.  Durst  Old  York.  Library 


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NEW  YORK 

THE  GREATEST  CITY. 


NEW  YORK,  the  first  city  in  America  and  the  second  largest  in  the  world  is  truly  a  city  of 
wonders.    Three  hundred  years  ago  used  as  a  camping  ground  by  the  American  Indians, 
Manhattan  Island  was  discovered  by  Henry  Hudson  in  1609,  and  the  first  permanent 
settlement  was  established  by  the  Dutch  in  1624,  and  named  New  Amsterdam.     In  1626  the 
entire  Island  of  Manhattan  was  purchased  from  the  Indians  for  beads  and  trinkets  valued  at 
$24.00.    The  English  took  possession  in  1664  and  named  it  New  York. 

In  1898  Greater  New  York  was  formed  by  the  consolidation  of  Manhattan,  Brooklyn, 
Bronx,  Queensboro  and  Richmond  and  the  total  population  is  now  about  7,000.000.  The 
Borough  of  Manhattan  which  was  the  city  proper  before  the  consolidation  contains  a  population 
of  2  ]/2  million,  which  are  crowded  into  a  narrow  space  about  13  miles  long  and  two  miles 
wide,  containing  only  about  1 9  square  miles.  The  value  of  the  land  is  now  estimated  at 
$4,020,000,000,  value  of  realty  improvements  $6,075,000,000,  an  average  of  $432,000  per 
acre.    Land  in  the  down  town  district  is  worth  from  $300  to  $600  per  square  foot. 


City  Hall  Park  in  1813. 


City  Hall  Park  Today. 


New  York  today  is  a  City  of  amazing  achievements  and  boundless  enterprise,  like  none 
other  on  the  entire  globe.  It  contains  so  many  of  the  world's  greatest  things  that  only  a  few 
of  them  can  be  mentioned  in  this  short  article.  In  area  New  York  is  the  largest  city  in  the 
world,  in  population  it  is  exceeded  only  by  one.  Here  are  located  the  world's  largest  office 
buildings,  one  of  them  rising  to  a  height  of  795  feet,  the  total  cost  exceeding  $25,000,000, 
involving  unheard  of  engineering  problems.  Hotels,  some  of  them  25  stories  in  height  and 
containing  2.000  or  more  rooms,  are  rivalled  only  by  the  mammoth  ocean  liners  that  enter  New 
York  Harbor  daily.  Here  is  the  world's  largest  University,  the  largest  and  most  attractive 
Theatres,  the  world's  greatest  bridges  and  a  system  of  parks  that  is  not  equalled  in  either 
Europe  or  America.  Broadway,  extending  from  the  Battery  to  Yonkers  traverses  the  Greatest 
Business  center  in  the  world  and  Riverside  Drive  and  Upper  Fifth  Avenue  are  the  grandest  of 
residential  avenues,  along  which  are  located  superb  mansions  and  the  most  luxurious  residences 
in  the  world.  The  World  has  no  other  center  that  can  compare  with  New  York,  the 
Greatest  City. 


F.  W.  WOOLWORTH  CO..  NEW  YORK. 


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